The Power To Be Free: Migrate, Recover, Protect And Deduplicate Data

Managing data has entered a higher realm. Enterprises are looking for a flexible approach to data management to move, store, protect, and recover data – without tying their business to specific hardware, network or interconnect protocols. Migrating data from old legacy platforms to new ones and having too many complex incompatible tools present challenges. Businesses need converged data services that work horizontally as well as modernizing data storage without “rip and replace.” FreeStor is the new paradigm in data services. With the brilliance of a single, software-defined platform that works across legacy, modern and virtual environments, IT managers can tap the smartest data solutions from one pane of glass.

Peter McCallum from FalconStor will discuss the following topics on April 28th at 3:00pm:

 True Software Defined Storage and its impact on a hybrid datacenter

 How Intelligent Abstraction merges legacy and modern infrastructure for optimized IT processes

 Rethinking how we provision, protect, and recover data resources, and how that impacts your

business.

 FalconStor in the modern datacenter: meeting you where you are, and getting you to where you

In this last of a 3 part webinar series presented by Greenlight, Micro Focus Product Management and Greenlight group will provide an overview of the current state of IT Operations Management technologies running on enterprise grade cloud native technology stacks. Join us, and come up to speed as the experts provide a high level overview of Network Operations, Hybrid Cloud, and Datacenter Automation suites from the Micro Focus ITOM portfolio running in a Docker & Kubernetes orchestrated environment.

Public, private and hybrid cloud are nothing new, but protecting sensitive data stored on these servers is still of the utmost concern. The NSA is no exception.

It recently became publicized that the contents of a highly sensitive hard drive belonging to the NSA (National Security Agency) were compromised. The virtual disk containing the sensitive data came from an Army Intelligence project and was left on a public AWS (Amazon Web Services) storage server, not password-protected.

This is one of at least 5 other leaks of NSA-related data in recent years. Not to mention the significant number of breaches and hacks we’ve experienced lately, including Yahoo!, Equifax, WannaCry, Petya, and more.

The culprit in this case? Unprotected storage buckets. They have played a part in multiple other recent exposures, and concern is on the rise. When it comes to storing data on public cloud servers like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Rackspace and more, what are the key responsibilities of Storage Architects and Engineers, CIOs and CTOs to avoid these types data leaks?

Tune in with Chris Vickery, Director of Cyber Risk Research at UpGuard and the one who discovered the leak, along with George Crump, Chief Steward, Storage Switzerland, David Linthicum, Cloud Computing Visionary, Author & Speaker, Charles Goldberg, Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Thales e-Security, and Mark Carlson, Co-Chair, SNIA Technical Council & Cloud Storage Initiative, for a live panel discussion on this ever-important topics.

What's the status of FirstNet's state opt-in benefits and how does the network help support public safety? Also, what are the benefits of connecting first responders to IoT and Smart Cities? These are the question that Bill Schrier will answer on this LIVE PODCAST by NMG Media.

Businesses today rely heavily on their data. Disaster may strike anywhere and occurs in many shapes and sizes. Transporting data over significant distance beyond the reach of a threatening event preserves data so organizations can rapidly recover in the event of a site going down.

This makes deploying a disaster recovery infrastructure between data centers with fast, continuous, and easy replication of mission-critical data to anywhere in the world essential.
Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP), often referred to as “Extension,” is used to connect SANs across distance using IP networks. FCIP is commonly used for Remote Data Replication (RDR) between Enterprise Storage Arrays and Remote Tape applications, for the purpose of Business Continuance via Disaster Recovery (BC/DR).

Join storage technology and industry experts as they discuss their experience and deployment knowledge in:

•Best known methods for deployment with extension architectures, extension in routed topologies, and performance optimization for remote replication
•Industry best practices: topologies to achieve high-availability goals, advantages in trunking, encryption, etc…
•Customer examples and use cases of a variety of critical production environments ranging from SMBs to the largest most demanding enterprises and government institutions

Many analysts are returning to automation as a re-emerging focus for organisations in 2018 as they struggle to be able to deliver solutions to their customers faster and more efficiently. Automation has been declared as the game changing solution for many years so will it be any different this time?

In this webinar, Simon Ratcliffe explores why automation is yet to become a ubiquitous across technology and what factors still stand in the way of the automation of everything. The core technology is stable and proven but the implementations are rarely entirely successful with many automation projects resulting in more staff after they are complete and many being reversed out as costs outweigh benefits.

Change is coming fast and furious. And in the eye of the storm are applications. I’ve seen entire IT departments go into scramble drills to see if they possessed the necessary personnel and talent to bridge the gap as their organizations embraced digital transformation. And by digital transformation, I mean the ubiquitous app or service that can be consumed from anywhere on any device at any given time. For organizations, it’s all about making money all the time from every possible engagement. Remove the barrier to consume and make the organization more money is what digital transformation is all about. So what will happen in 2018?

In this session, I will discuss my top three IT predictions for 2018 and discuss how IT professionals can remain valuable in their IT careers in the face of continuous integration and continuous delivery.

· What are my top three 2018 predictions?
· What skills do I need to remain relevant?

Today, Business and IT are so inextricably linked, that to think about them in terms of two separate things is no longer valid. Join this webinar led by Kevin Lee Smith to learn how to introduce business-driven EA in your organization. Business value creation requires people who talk the same language as the business and who focus on outcomes and results. This talk introduces the DOTS model, which considers an enterprise in terms of Direction, Operations, Transformation and Support, and helps organizations to change and innovate faster.

Enterprise-architecture used to be about IT and not much else: but not any more. These days, enterprise-architects in digital-transformation and the like must negotiate an ever-expanding maze of perspectives and conflicts across every aspect of the organisation and beyond.

So how do we resolve those conflicts, and identify the common factors across the perspectives that link everyone together? This seminar introduces some practical, proven approaches that can help architects explore any change-context, and lead them to the solutions they need.

Join this live webinar with Monique Morrow, President & Co-Founder of The Humanized Internet, for an in-depth look at the major influencers, game changers, and technologies that are shaping IT in 2018. From fast changing global patterns to the "trust deficit" and community activism, this will be a holistic approach to understanding the technologies of tomorrow. Topics will include:

A whole new era of cloud-native applications is here. From blockchain and IoT, to AI and machine learning, AR/VR, containers and microservices, the possibilities for modernizing your IT infrastructure are endless.

With these advanced technologies and the widespread adoption of open source comes greater security risks, the explosion of firewall, and implications on IT teams to adopt, integrate, transition, and digitize at lightning speed.

Join this expert panel with Russ White, Network Architect at LinkedIn, Tarak Modi, President & CTO of TekNirvana, Bala Kalavala, Founder & CIO of Adiya, Inc. and Jim Frey, VP of Channels at Kentik, as they discuss and explore in-depth the most important technology trends and how to apply them in 2018.

Topics include:
- Decentralized applications - a closer look at containers and microservices, blockchain, AI, VR and IoT
- Network disaggregation and the changing engineering landscape
- DevOps, agile and software-defined networking
- A technical deep dive into cloud, open source and security in 2018 and beyond
- Challenges in adapting to modernization of enterprise IT - People and Process

Enterprise Architecture is more than just drawing boxes and arrows in isolation. It all depends on you the Enterprise Architect. In this webinar, Jason Uppal, Chief Architect from Million Innovators Group will share their seven-year journey to tackle the wicked problem of "Never Events" during healthcare delivery in hospitals.

Webinar Takeaways
- How to use leading EA framework – TOGAF® to create an Enterprise Architecture, Innovation, Design and Change life cycle.
- Application of this life cycle to develop necessary capabilities to manage Episodic Care and tame the wicked problem of “Never Events” that cost our public healthcare (North America) system nearly 20 billion dollars per year and infinite unnecessary human suffering
- Discuss how we created a Fail Forward culture for the Program Team
- Discovery of Challenges and Solutions along our 7-year journey so far (job is far from complete)
- Application of Life Cycle to other Challenges – where does your journey start?

Bio – Major Jason Uppal, P.Eng.

Mr. Uppal is a Professional Engineer registered in the province of Ontario, Canada. He is a certified Chief Architect by The Open Group at Open CA Level 3. Currently, he leads innovations teams (from idea to adoption) for Million Innovators Group. He is a frequent speaker and a blogger on the topic of Innovation for Social Good.

Listen to GlobalData's Peter Jarich – VP, Consumer Services and Service Provider Infrastructure talk about who is in the lead for 5G test trials and deployments and what regions of the world we can expect the next generation of network communications?

Today’s world of testing is a marathon! Testing teams are required to test more environments and mobile devices, without damaging the quality of their applications. They are required to test much earlier in the cycle, and to provide constant visibility, enabling development teams to have a short feedback loop in order to run faster and meet the business demand. This creates a big challenge for testing teams to keep up with the rapid pace of change without compromising on quality.

In this webinar, Eran will introduce you to StormRunner Functional, the very first and only hybrid test execution service to support the Micro Focus testing tools with Unified Functional Testing (UFT) and UFT Pro (LeanFT), as well as the popular and open source Selenium. Learn how it can help you improve your testing and achieve faster execution times.

Key Takeaways:

•Leverage your existing testing assets in a variety of ways: run them remotely to utilize SRF’s on-demand virtual lab or upload them for faster parallel execution and runtime scalability
•Create new testing assets from scratch using SRF’s online recording service for both web and mobile. This allows you to go “full-SaaS”, from test design to test execution and lab
•Design and execute your exploratory sessions on all your apps: native, hybrid, and web apps
•Identify and investigate the changes in your apps with SRF’s advanced root-cause analysis, and submit defects to your defect management tools

Micro Focus Product Management and Greenlight group will dive into the details of Micro Focus’ Enterprise Grade IT Service Management Automation and Operations Bridge product suites - showcasing the most recent advances that ease bringing cloud native capabilities to the mainstream IT Operations organizations.

Digital transformation, acceleration, innovation. Buzzwords or not, these words reflect the reality of every existing business fighting for new revenue streams, better customer experience, and faster delivery of new services.

To support these business objectives, IT organizations need to focus on increasing performance and workforce productivity without driving additional costs. At the same time, it is imperative that tools need to adapt to the way people work today.

In this session we will present the new, re-architected Micro Focus ITSM Automation solution (formerly known as HPE ITSM Automation). Micro Focus ITSM Automation software can be installed on Amazon Web Services, brings a new user experience, greater collaboration, and many other new capabilities. It is based on machine learning and analytics, to adapt the tools to the needs of business users and IT.

Join our live webinar and learn:

•Why choice, flexibility and speed in ITSM deployment is important
•What data is needed so that service desk agents can become more productive and proactive
•How to solve issues faster with increased collaboration among both end users and ITSM staff

Greenlight Group, a managed service provider, will discuss what helps them meet the most stringent SLAs while constantly providing new service offerings to their customers.

During the webinar, you will also see the new ITSM Automation release live in action.

We’re all accustomed to transferring money from one bank account to another; a credit to the payer becomes a debit to the payee. But that model uses a specific set of sophisticated techniques to accomplish what appears to be a simple transaction. We’re also aware of how today we can order goods online, or reserve an airline seat over the Internet. Or even simpler, we can update a photograph on Facebook. Can these applications use the same models, or are new techniques required?

One of the more important concepts in storage is the notion of transactions, which are used in databases, financials, and other mission critical workloads. However, in the age of cloud and distributed systems, we need to update our thinking about what constitutes a transaction. We need to understand how new theories and techniques allow us to undertake transactional work in the face of unreliable and physically dispersed systems. It’s a topic full of interesting concepts (and lots of acronyms!). In this webcast, we’ll provide a brief tour of traditional transactional systems and their use of storage, we’ll explain new application techniques and transaction models, and we’ll discuss what storage systems need to look like to support these new advances.

And yes, we’ll explain all the acronyms and nomenclature too.

You will learn:

•A brief history of transactional systems from banking to Facebook
•How the Internet and distributed systems have changed and how we view transactions
•An explanation of the terminology, from ACID to CAP and beyond
•How applications, networks & particularly storage have changed to meet these demands

Join us for a fast-paced and informative 60-minute roundtable as we discuss the latest—and potentially most game-changing—technology disruptors to traditional storage architectures since flash: NVMe over fabric and Storage Class Memory.

It was just five years ago that Flash technology transformed the traditional storage market forever. Modern flash-first arrays are now the new normal for traditional storage. Will a new shared storage access protocol called NVM express over Fabric (NVMe-oF) combined with the advent of storage class memory (SCM) be equally disruptive to traditional storage over the next five years as NAND flash technology was in the past?

Vendors are now announcing new products and future architectures to enable them to support these new technologies. With the help of a lively panel of experts from HPE, Pivot3, and Mellanox, we will unpack this topic and explore how their innovative approaches to leveraging Storage Class Memory and NVMe-oF can radically improve storage products and solutions.

Ten years ago, the SNIA 100-Year Archive Task Force developed a survey with the goal to determine the requirements for long-term digital information retention in the data center - requirements needed to frame the definition of best practices and solutions to the retention and preservation problems unique to large,scalable data centers.

Now in 2017, SNIA presents a new survey developed to assess the following details:

1. Who needs to retain long term information
2. What information needs to be retained and for how long
3. If organizations are able to meet their retention needs
4. How long term information is stored, secured and preserved

Join us as we see where we were and where we need to be in the preservation and retention of data.

Storage can be something of a “black box,” a monolithic entity that is at once mysterious and scary. That’s why we created “The Everything You Wanted To Know About Storage But Were Too Proud to Ask” webcast series. So far, we’ve explored various and sundry aspects of storage, focusing on “the naming of the parts.” Our goal has been to break down some of the components of storage and explain how they fit into the greater whole.

This time, however, we’re going to open up Pandora’s Box and peer inside the world of storage management, uncovering some of the key technologies that are used to manage devices, storage traffic, and storage architectures. In particular, we’ll be discussing:

There’s so much to say on each of these subjects we could do a full webcast on any one of them, but for a quick overview of many of the technologies that affect storage in one place, we think you will find your time has been well spent.

Check out the Q&A blog from this webcast http://sniaesfblog.org/?p=658

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